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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
1
The article reports on the defunct Farmers & Traders National Bank as it nears the first quarterly report to the Comptroller of the Currency. Receiver Walter Niedner warns against taking advantage of muddled records and promises a full disclosure of every transaction and claim against the bank.
Money pours in from brewers manufacturers merchants and farmers as California shippers unite to protest a proposed railroad freight rate hike. Pledges support to the executive committee and may seek to halt the change before the Saturday effective date.
A wary editorial decries individuals profiting from a failing institution, calling such actions contemptible and noting the lack of contradiction to the claim. The piece frames the struggle to rescue the institution as urgent and ethically charged.
Oakland man John Robbins from Fruitvale choked as he shoved a billiard ball into his mouth to win a $2.50 bet. The ball caused dental damage and a near fatal nervous shock, leaving him with missing teeth and a medical bill as a New Year greeting.
Charles Taft today announced his withdrawal from the Ohio senatorial race to seek harmony. Politicians expect Theodore Burton to succeed J B Foraker two years hence, as Foraker also withdraws clearing Burton’s path. Burton, a Cleveland Republican born 1851, had served in multiple Ohio legislatures and state offices. Emma Goeck is reported ill with appendicitis.
New York City begins its annual New Year celebration with widespread revelry and costly wine at major resorts. Police expect a large portion of adults to be intoxicated by midnight as crowds fill Broadway streets and restaurant lights dim for a silent toast before dawn. Trinity Church bells mark the moment as New York welcomes 1909 with festive riot and restraint.
A two day meeting led by Bishop C W Smith at Centenary Church Portland gathered district superintendents and others from Puget Sound Wilamette and Klamath regions plus J D Gillilan to discuss home missions and church extension. Mrs C L Weaver and Mrs C W Jones spoke on Woman's Home Missionary Society and Woman's Missionary League work. T S McDaniels and President Homan highlighted lay and denominational ties with Willamette University. Missionaries E E Hertzler John Oval H P Nelson Chan reported on foreign language work in Portland.
Government estimates 119000 dead as widow follows husband’s body amid districe chaos. King and Queen move through streets, appearing to work minds in efforts to calm public and organize relief.
Dispatches from Messina claim 186 600 dead with the south as a vast hospital and morgue. Remainder of text describes ruined streets used as wards, improvised morgues, and improvised efforts to move the injured. Fire continues to burn bodies as rescue lags.
The city echoes with hammer and saw as two stone piers rise for a $60,000 M. and M. building while new houses appear citywide. County officials urge immediate troop deployment amid a bloody mountain feud linked to the Hargis case and jury disagreement in Beach Hargis murder trial. Zachariah Lilly buys four lots on North Fourth for a cottage. Mrs. Sullivan nears completion of Adams avenue home. Continued on page 4.
Milholland, a bartender at a Golden Gate Avenue saloon in San Francisco, was found bleeding after a robbery in which burglars looted the safe of 3000 dollars. The proprietor discovered him, and Milholland was alone when the crime occurred.
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